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| jandal7 |
Posted on 25-02-2018 01:28
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Dissapointing races for us, especially Amstel could have done better. Not bad by Padron in Recioto
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 25-02-2018 05:25
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Stopped expecting results in hilly races. 19th place by GVA in La Fleche is as good as we could've hoped for. Amstel was much more selective than I thought it would be!
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| Ripley |
Posted on 25-02-2018 07:37
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Giovanni Visconti with a totally out of nowhere performance to a podium
Visconti was in the early breakaway and had not B&B attacked the breakaway could have won this. Beautiful Fleche Wallone variant, I don't think I have that one.
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Posted on 23-11-2024 19:09
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 25-02-2018 07:56
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wtf happened to Kreuziger in Amstel!? 70!?
Fleche was solid enough though.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 25-02-2018 08:13
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Thanks for the results and some great video coverage. That fleche variant looks nice. Bananito could have won Fleche a goal race but suddenly moved over when the others pushed. he should have responded with his full killer acc right there and then, in the last 500m there was no chance to get onto podium.
Cuadros with a solid 6th place from breakaway haha true GOAT However I think jis presence prevented Bananito from a more aggresaive approach. So sadly not good enough.
looking forward to lbl, contador likely the only one able to stop Wawa who continues his classic domination from strade
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| Shonak |
Posted on 25-02-2018 08:37
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https://pcmdaily.c...st_1281301
Dunkerques wrapped up and Liege Bastogne Liege for U23 posted.
Video Dunkerque Stage 4: https://youtu.be/...
LBL Espoirs: https://youtu.be/...
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 25-02-2018 09:01
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Wow what a race, simply amazing  Wonderful victory, high time Siskevicius took out a big GC win!
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Ripley |
Posted on 25-02-2018 09:13
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Well, that stage 4 was less spectacular than expected. Have to disagree with jandal, of course, Siskevicius is way too weak a rider to deserve this.  Stupid late attack on stage 2.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 25-02-2018 09:28
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Ripley wrote:
Well, that stage 4 was less spectacular than expected. Have to disagree with jandal, of course, Siskevicius is way too weak a rider to deserve this. Stupid late attack on stage 2.
You say stupid late attack, I say dominant hill sprint. You say weak rider, logic says you don't deserve to participate in ICL anymore 
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Shonak |
Posted on 25-02-2018 09:33
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yup pretty disappointed that there wernt attacks by stannard et al, hoped for some carnage on s4
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| Ripley |
Posted on 25-02-2018 09:44
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jandal7 wrote:
Ripley wrote:
Well, that stage 4 was less spectacular than expected. Have to disagree with jandal, of course, Siskevicius is way too weak a rider to deserve this. Stupid late attack on stage 2.
You say stupid late attack, I say dominant hill sprint. You say weak rider, logic says you don't deserve to participate in ICL anymore
Hehe. Well, I wonder if Schorn's good GC position before stage 4 was the reason that Stannard didn't attack, fearing he'd jeopardise Schorn's podium spot. If that's the case, Aviva basically helped Siskevicius win. You're welcome! I'm actually really happy with 2nd, of course.
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| Vali |
Posted on 25-02-2018 09:46
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At least Cancellara tried to salvage the race by attacking, but he was obviously injured so no success there. Voss getting dropped on the last stage doesn't really help either.
Congrats jandal and thanks for the reports Shonak.
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| jaxika |
Posted on 25-02-2018 09:49
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Wow, great ride by Barguil. Really like hes action attitude this year. Also Alemayo doing good for Bora, better in the CT races, then in the Us, interesting. But lets not forget Kristoffs cobble campaign, nice work. Thanks for the reports, guys, you are doing an amazing job  |
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| dominox |
Posted on 25-02-2018 10:08
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Barguil going for the triple? That would be awesome!
I guess I has to be happy with that 17th place by Ulissi at Wallonne, because it seems I can't expect anything better at LBL. |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 25-02-2018 10:11
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Ripley wrote:
jandal7 wrote:
Ripley wrote:
Well, that stage 4 was less spectacular than expected. Have to disagree with jandal, of course, Siskevicius is way too weak a rider to deserve this. Stupid late attack on stage 2.
You say stupid late attack, I say dominant hill sprint. You say weak rider, logic says you don't deserve to participate in ICL anymore
Hehe. Well, I wonder if Schorn's good GC position before stage 4 was the reason that Stannard didn't attack, fearing he'd jeopardise Schorn's podium spot. If that's the case, Aviva basically helped Siskevicius win. You're welcome! I'm actually really happy with 2nd, of course.
Thanks, I guess
Oh and I forgot to say in the excitement of the GC win, nice riding from Jacobsen to win the KOM
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 25-02-2018 11:06
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I'm not disappointed in the way Martin races, that is not a problem. I am disappointed with the results he gets out of it, he should do way better. His entire season has been sub-par results wise. Hopefully he can do great in LBL.
Périchon with an amazing top five in AGR to save some points.
Dev team is crap, but I knew that.
Thanks for the reports everyone!
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 25-02-2018 11:48
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The dev team is finaly scoring a few points. Henao keeps getting some results for us, which is great. Everyone was talking about Sergio, but Sebastian is having a solid season as well.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 25-02-2018 12:17
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Alright Dunkerque was a bit of a letdown seeing how much depth we had in Cassel.. But it wasn't a bad race overall, only regret cause Kern really was in an incredible shape and wasn't able to materialize a better result.
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 25-02-2018 18:33
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Barguil on fire at the moment.
Three Ardennes races and three podium finishes, pretty happy with that, Bardet's training really paying off
Three in the top 10 at U23 LBL underlines the strength in depth of our U23 squad.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 25-02-2018 20:03
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Awesome Siskevicius!
We continue to underoerform with our leaders on hills. Barguil is a cheater. Not in the Top20 in both Ardennes Classics is unexplainable. Liberty, Italo, CSC and Allianz gain a lot on us these days.
Also not pleased to not win Colombia, but a deserved one for VistUkraine surely.
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